Joe McNally, American photographer born in 1952, who has been shooting for the National Geographic Society since 1987.

McNally was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He received his bachelor's and graduate degrees from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is based out of New York City and resides in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

McNally has contributed for the National Geographic magazine for 20 years. One of his photographic projects for the magazine was "The Future of Flying," a 32-page cover story, published in December 2003, commemorating the centennial observance of the Wright brothers' flight. This story was the first all digital shoot for the magazine. This issue was a National Magazine Award Finalist, and one of the magazine’s most popular covers.

He has shot cover stories for Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, Geo, Fortune, New York, Business Week, LIFE and Men’s Journal, among others.

Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins, British photographer and member of Magnum Photos born in 1947, best known for his depiction of Africa, Afghanistan, England, and Japan.

Steele-Perkins was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1947 to a British father and a Burmese mother; but his father left his mother and took the boy to England at the age of two. For one year studied chemistry at the University of York before leaving for a stay in Canada. Returning to Britain, he joined the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he served as photographer and picture editor for a student magazine. After graduating in psychology in 1970 he started to work as a freelance photographer, specializing in the theatre, while he also lectured in psychology.

By 1971, Steele-Perkins had moved to London and become a full-time photographer, with particular interest in urban issues, including poverty. He went to Bangladesh in 1973 to take photographs for relief organizations; some of this work was exhibited in 1974 at the Camerawork Gallery (London).

Steele-Perkins photographed wars and disasters in the third world, leaving Viva Agency in 1979 to join Magnum Photos as a nominee (on encouragement by Josef Koudelka), and becoming an associate member in 1981 and a full member in 1983.

Chris Buck, Canadian born (1964), New York-based photographer known for his unconventional portraits.

His father, George Buck worked for Kodak Canada, giving him an early connection to photography. He attended Ryerson University where he majored in Photographic Arts. During this time he was a photo editor for Nerve, a Toronto monthly music paper. Buck studied under noted street photographer Dave Heath and media critic Murray Pomerance, both of whom continued as mentors in the years after his graduation. He moved to New York in 1990 and has since shot many important magazine and advertising photographs.

His most recognized portraits include those of Steve Martin, Andy Samberg, Chris Farley, Chloe Sevigny, and Nick Offerman. Buck has also photographed many American politicians, including Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and George H. W. Bush.

Ken Bell, Canadian photographer who served with the Canadian armed forces during the Second World War. As a Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, he participated in the Normandy Landings, photographing and recording the liberation of France, Belgium and Holland, and finally documenting the occupation of Germany. After the war he had a successful career as a professional photographer, and published a number of books including Not in Vain, a collection of photographs showing the changes which had taken place in Europe since the end of the war.

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, born in 1910.

Over the course of fifty years, from the 1930s until his death in 1983, Von Bruenchenhein produced an expansive oeuvre of poetry, photography, painting, drawing and sculpture. His body of work includes over one thousand colorful, apocalyptic landscape paintings; hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones, ceramic and cast cement; pin-up style photos of his wife, Marie; plus dozens of notebooks filled with poetic and scientific musings. Never confined to one particular method or medium, Von Bruenchenhein continually used everyday, discarded objects to visually explore imagined past and future realities.

Adriano Cecioni, Italian artist, caricaturist, and critic associated with the Macchiaioli group, born in 1836.

He began his artistic training in 1859 at the Florentine Academy under the sculptor Aristodemo Costoli. In that same year he fought alongside Telemaco Signorini in the Second Italian War of Independence. In 1860 he participated in a competition to provide military artworks for the Tuscan government. His submission, a maquette for a statue of Charles Albert of Savoy, won a prize but was deemed unsatisfactory by academicians and was not commissioned.

In 1863 Cecioni received a grant and went to Naples, where he was instrumental in the formation of the artists' group Scuola di Resina, which included Giuseppe De Nittis, Marco de Gregorio, and Federico Rossano. A major work of this period was his sculpture The Suicide, which he exhibited at the Florence Academy in 1867. In 1872 Cecioni spent six months in London, where he contributed a series of caricatures to Vanity Fair magazine. After he returned to Italy, the sculptures he produced for the rest of his career were mainly genre works, often humorous in nature. He also painted domestic scenes. In 1884 he became Professor of Drawing at the Istituto di Magistero Femminile.

Cecioni's activities as an art critic, which began in the 1870s, consumed an increasing amount of his time in his later years.

In 1970 he received a scholarship by Icetex to study in Europe for a year. He lived his greater experience as a sculptor with the exhibition of his works in Italy. On his return to Colombia he founded his first workshop.

He was the founder of the Association of Colombian Artist in Visual Arts "ACAP".

Student and follower of Jose Horacio Betancur, has dabbled in various styles in his work, and many of his sculptures populate the streets of Medellin.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Italian neo-impressionist painter born in 1868. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.

Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to specific color theory.

His most famous work, Il Quarto Stato ("The Fourth Estate") (1901), has become a well-known symbol for progressive and socialist causes in Italy, and throughout Europe. The painting is shown during the opening credits of Bernardo Bertolucci's film 1900 and is currently housed at the Museo del Novecento in Milan. An earlier version is held in the Pinacoteca di Brera.

Pellizza hanged himself in 1907, after the deaths of his wife and son.

He attended Boston College, where he earned a BS in Business. He then worked in the financial field in Philadelphia and then for a technology start-up in the San Francisco Bay Area. After that company went bankrupt in 1998, Waguespack returned to Atlanta to attend the Portfolio Center and changed careers. He came back to San Francisco to work for an advertising agency from 2000 to 2005, before deciding to become a full-time artist.

John experiments continuously in a variety of mediums using the environment as inspiration as well as an influence on the construction of the work itself. He creates works covering a broad spectrum of styles, including abstract expressionism, surreal pop, linear deconstruction, as well as his own signature reincarnation series.

Norman was born in Sundsvall, Medelpad. He currently lives and works in Ekerö, Stockholm. He paints visions and dreamlike images as accurately as possible, which results in paintings with a photorealistic quality. His works are intended to spread virally among social networks on the Internet; his art and stunts often deal with everyday events spiced up with a touch of the absurd.

A few examples of such works created for the Internet are the illustrated essay "The LED (minor) Artcrime Tutorial" and the Moose graffiti stunt, where the artist sneaks up on a wild moose and paints graffiti on it. His sculpture and plastic arts projects have received some exposure in Sweden, such as his art project that consisted of a woodpecker placed on a traffic camera on the E4 near Stockvik. In another of Max Magnus Norman's art projects the artist created an unknown (but huge) number of plastic monkeys, about 1 metres in length. One night in early May 2009 he put up these monkeys in different settings all over the small city Sundsvall.

Until the age of twelve Maurice Boitel lived in Burgundy at Gevrey-Chambertin. In this beautiful province his art reflected his major love of nature, and also the feeling of joie de vivre expressed in his works. He began drawing at the age of five.

He studied at the Fine Arts schools of Boulogne-sur-Mer and of Amiens, and later at the Fine Arts Academy of Dijon before fighting in a mountain light infantry platoon at the beginning of World War II.

He successfully sat the competitive examination to enter the National Academy of Fine Arts École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris).

With exquisite delicacy and infinite patience, Edouard Martinet manufactures, without welding, animals with scrap of mechanical and bodywork, and several stuff recovered in markets and scrapyards. A thorough work, precious and with a very good taste.

Edouard Martinet was born in Le Mans, France in 1963 he studied art at ESAG, Paris and graduated in 1988.

From 1988 to 1992 he lived and worked in Paris as a graphic designer, and in 1990 started sculpting and staging exhibitions. From 1992 to 1995 he lived in Charente before moving to his current location in Rennes where he teaches art at L'Institut des Arts Appliques

When Edouard Martinet was 10, one of his teachers introduced his pupils to insects, but in a rather obsessive way. Subliminally, the fascination sunk in to the young French boy. Fast-forward 40 years, and Martinet has become the art world's virtuoso insectophile, transforming bits and pieces of cast-off junk culled from flea markets and car boot sales into exquisitely executed insect, fish and animal forms. What sets Martinet's work apart is the brilliant formal clarity of his sculptures, and their extraordinary elegance of articulation. His degree of virtuosity is unique: he does not solder or weld parts. His sculptures are screwed together. This gives his forms an extra level of visual richness - but not in a way that merely conveys the dry precision of, say, a watchmaker. There is an X-Factor here, a graceful wit, a re-imagining of the obvious in which a beautifully finished object glows not with perfection, but with character, with new life. Martinet takes about a month to make a sculpture and will often work on two or three pieces at the same time.

"When I find an object, I don't always see a use for it, but I usually keep it and put it away for later. Yet sometimes I'll find something and see its potential instantly. Occasionally, an object will even give me an idea to make a particular insect. But it can be a very long process to get all the right parts because they not only need to fit together really well, they need to accurately represent whatever part of the sculpture it is that they are intended to be - and it's not unusual to start something and then have to put it to one side until I find just the right piece to finish it. It once took me 15 years to make a dragonfly."

Izq./ Left: "Escarabajo egipcio / Egyptian Beetle", 13 x 38 x 16 cm.

Abdomen: Faro tomado de un coche conducido durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial / Headlight taken from a car driven during the Second World War

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